Poison Fire Movie: Nigerian activists follow Shell's gas flaring

Submitted by Dipesh Pabari on 6 September, 2008 - 08:17

"Poison Fire follows a team of local activists as they gather “video testimonies” fromcommunities on the impact of oils spills and gas flaring. We see creeks full of crude oil, devastated mangrove forests, wellheads that has been leaking gas and oil for months. We meet people whose survival is acutely threatened by the loss of farmland, fishing and drinking water and the health hazards of gas flaring."

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And Poison Fire activists and journalists were detained by military...

Poison Fire

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